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...F.TAYLOR ROOT...
...exception to this. But it is, as one might expect, a rudimentary effort, stiff and mute. Fifteen years later, when he made his Head of an Old Woman, the image succeeded less as a portrait than as a meditation on time: the plaster face is weathered like an old root, its forms blurred under the delicate accumulated fingermarks...
With little fanfare, Freeman recently announced that Tenneco and two other Houston firms (Texas Eastern and Brown & Root) are carrying on negotiations with the Soviet Union for rights to the vast natural-gas fields of central Siberia. The cartel is bargaining for a 25-year deal to transport, in liquid form, some 2 billion cu. ft. of natural gas daily -about three times as much as all of New England now uses every 24 hours. U.S. demand for imported natural gas is expected to skyrocket in the near future, since projected needs far outstrip the available supply at home. Final...
Whether this phenomenon is triggered by fire or bulldozer, it is manifested in flower, fruit, cone or propagating root. But be it relatively mechanistic or biologically complex, it elicits the same response from man's subconscious - when threatened by disaster, life sees to its own perpetuity...
...hard put to read these four very different books without some misgivings. For if the root reasons for suicide remain murky, among the likely contributory causes is the power of personal example, as well as what might be called sheer morbid faddishness. The more people hear suicide discussed as an honorable solution to the pangs of living, the more people-given other stresses-are likely to try it. It is statistically true that if anyone in a child's close-knit world commits suicide, the child's chances of eventually doing the same thing increase by as much...